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Hate ‘Twilight?’ God/Cthulhu
made you that way
Do you
hate the “Twilight” empire, its fans, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and most
especially, the kid with the abs?
According
to a recent study by Kansas State University, it’s not your fault. Hating “Twilight”
is encoded in your DNA. It’s stuck in the very fiber of your being, right next
to hair color and whether or not you can wiggle your ears.
Scientist-types
have discovered there are two types of people walking the Earth, those who like
fantasy and those who don’t.
After
an elaborate series of experimentations, it seems some folks are cool with
accepting the limitless altered realities that exist in works of fantasy, while
others prefer things that play by the rules.
Science
fiction, by the by, wasn’t included as fantasy since it tends to apply logic to
the world it creates.
People
who liked fantasy were more prone to daydreaming and also were known to insert
fantastical elements into works that were more grounded. For example: Imagining
having the ability to fly in a straightforward story about watching a sunset.
Read
more about the study right here.
So next
time you see a grown woman on the bus reading a dog-eared copy of “New Moon,”
resist the urge to punch her square in the face.
You need to punch her DNA in the
face instead.
Source: MSNBC
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Adam Sandler: Better when he sucks?
Common
sense indicates that when a movie is truly awful, it will make no money.
Ladies and
gentlemen, I give you Adam Sandler, defier of logic, smiter of common sense,
dark knight of nonsense.
Apparently,
the worse reviews a Sandler movie gets, the better it performs at the box
office.
Sandler’s
last six starring roles have all cashed in the more critics ripped them.
Take
for instance “Grown Ups,” which was the worst reviewed recent Sandler picture
according to Rottentomatoes.com with only 10% of critics giving it a positive
rating. Despite that, “Grown Ups” netted $162 million at the box office, making
it his most successful recent outing commercially.
His
second-worst reviewed movie, the truly awful “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and
Larry,” is also his second highest-grossing.
On the
flip side of the coin, “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan” scored a 36% on
Rottentomatoes, which is the equivalent of an Oscar in Sandler terms, and was
also his least successful recent movie.
Remember:
As far as Adam Sandler is concerned--- Quality doesn’t equal $$$.
Although,
his latest offering--- the critically reviled “Jack and Jill”--- could be
reversing the trend. It scored a paltry 3% on Rottentomatoes, but it won’t
break box office records anytime soon. So perhaps America’s finally getting
wise to Sandler’s game. We can only hope.
Source:
LA Times
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